Helped by the various answers and a promotion on a webstore, I've purchased a supermicro x9SCAA motherboard. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/X9/X9SCAA.cfm
That might be working out of the box with one or the other distribution. I'll make a report here once tested. erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > 2) C2000 sata soc and i354 ethernet controllers are not > > known working yet. > > should be working with 9atom. Nice !